Copy and paste the Bat emoji (🦇) in one click. Explore its Animals & Nature symbolism, social media usage, and Emoji 3.0 / Unicode 9.0 (2016) Unicode specs (U+1F987).
Unicode Definition: Depicts bat (🦇), classified under the "animal-mammal" subgroup in Emoji 3.0 / Unicode 9.0 (2016) (U+1F987).
Context & Expression: Evokes appreciation for wildlife, outdoor adventure, seasonal weather, botanical beauty, or the personality traits traditionally associated with bat.
Context Tip: Bat (🦇) works both literally for pets, plants, and weather updates and figuratively as a mood or personality emblem.
On TikTok, Instagram, and X, animal and nature emojis like 🦇 frequently carry double meanings—serving both as aesthetic mood-board icons (for nature hikes, pet reels, and seasonal photo dumps) and as playful metaphors for someone's vibe or energy.
Combine 🦇 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Bat emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Look at what we spotted on the morning trail walk today!
Stop that is so cool!! Nature really showed out today 🦇✨
Best start to the weekend honestly
Apple iOS features naturalistic textures, fur/feather shading, and botanical gradients; Google Android and Samsung use bright, friendly illustration styles; Microsoft Windows uses crisp outlined shading.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🦇 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🦇 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🦇 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🦇 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🦇 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🦇 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Bat |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F987 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🦇 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🦇 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F987 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F987} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 87 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :bat: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 3.0 / Unicode 9.0 (2016) |
| Category & Subgroup | Animals & Nature (mammals) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Evokes appreciation for wildlife, outdoor adventure, seasonal weather, botanical beauty, or the personality traits traditionally associated with bat. It belongs to the Animals & Nature category and was standardized in Emoji 3.0 / Unicode 9.0 (2016).
On TikTok, Instagram, and X, animal and nature emojis like 🦇 frequently carry double meanings—serving both as aesthetic mood-board icons (for nature hikes, pet reels, and seasonal photo dumps) and as playful metaphors for someone's vibe or energy.
Click the "Copy Emoji (🦇)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F987 (Emoji 3.0 / Unicode 9.0 (2016)). In HTML use 🦇 or 🦇; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F987"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F987}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :bat:.
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